A pause for reflection...

[Gifford, Geoffrey]

Hi all,

 

I'd like to take the opportunity to take stock of the project's training offer so far and garner what you'd like to see more of in the future.

 

Over the last year, we have brought you courses for:

 

GIMP, an Open Source Photoshop replacement (Introduction);

Wordpress, two courses (for users and for designers/content management);

Moodle (Administrator and Course Creator);

Android, Google's mobile phone platform (beginner and advanced);

Zend PHP (Intro, Higher Structures and Certification);

Red Hat (through the RHA certifications and directly with Red Hat);

Apache Web Server (Administration);

Linux Operating System, (Introduction);

Moving your business to the Google cloud;

Ingres Open Source Enterprise Database (Intro and Mangement);

Agile Project Management Methods (Intro and Technical Aspects);

Magento e-commerce course for Shop Owners (Managing your store);

Enterprise Open Source - (Developing Enterprise Open Source Solutions);

Going Open, "a map through the minefield" for businesses looking to develop their products in the Open Source world; 

 

As you can see, there is a fairly wide range of subjects covered and some of these are best suited for delivery under consultancy and others are more suited to publically offered short courses.

Also, these courses have interested people in Sweden, Denmark and people have actually travelled from from all over the UK and as far afield as Italy to attend our courses for the full cost.

 

Some topics I've been looking at, in response to discussions with industry players, are: JBoss, Sun Microsystems, Ubuntu, Talend, Using Amazon Web Services to deploy Open Source Applications, C++ and Java.

 

I'd be grateful for your thoughts around this summary and what other courses would help your business make the most of funding offer.

 

 

Kind regards

 

Geoff Gifford
Programme Manager
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[Christopher Lightfoot]

Hi Geoff

I found the open source day i recently attended really helpful. I would be really interested in learning more about administering the lamp stack we use at work and get a basic grounding in php and mysql in particular. I would also be intrested in knowing more about drupal and specifically civicrm we use.

Thanks

Chris

[David Kay]

Just a note to say that your list of potential new courses looks very interesting

 

Three comments

 

a)       Amazon web services – that should be of value across the region

b)       Sun – presumably that includes their Java cert and MySQL offering, as well as OS stuff

c)       C++ seems a bit off model for the OS4B mission

 

David

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[Dan Ballance]

Hiya,

Of interest to me would be a higher level MySQL course: query optimisation, load-balancing etc.

Also creating highly available clusters in linux: Heart Beat, iSCSI, OpenFile etc.

Many thanks,

dan

2009/9/28 Gifford, Geoffrey <ge...@ntileeds.co.uk>

[Dan Ballance]

Sorry, typo, Openfiler ( http://www.openfiler.com/ )

dan

2009/10/1 Dan Ballance <tzewan...@googlemail.com>

[Jim]

Talend seems to be an interesting solution. I would like to follow
classes on that.
I know the software called Talend Open Studio, but havent heard there
are classe on the software.

Thx.